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I will start by saying that the paper that recommends the procedure is rather badly written, but since the issue is not of high difficulty I would dare to give a few hints that could suggest the answer.

First of all, Michelle was trying to do this estimation of the VaR using a non-parametric procedure based on kernel estimation of the real density of the data generating process.
This is similar to the basic estimation of the VaR from the historical data but in the same time has a small twist of complication.

In the "historical" estimation of the VaR you take the data order it by value and look at the point from where it starts the 5% worst block of data points. That will be your estimate of the 5% VaR.

In this kernel estimation you want to get to the "same" result but you want it to make it a bit more fancy by adding some probability to it. This bit of probability regards the distribution of the estimate of the VaR. That is, we consider the historical realisations as one of many possible realisations of the process of the price, and so, the VaR estimate from the historical data is one of the possible many values that this estimator takes, and all of this possible values would make a distribution.This is the distribution that he was looking for (the jth order distribution). To compute that, he just needed to apply some formula given in the above cited article. And in the end, the mean of that distribution would give him the estimate of the VaR. The benefit of having that distribution is that you can give some credibility to that estimator by computing for example the confidence interval of that estimate of the VaR.